Mathomat Model Making Tools

Explorer investigations using Mathomat

This area is for use with the Mathomat Explorer student manual.

The Platonic Solids

The Archimedean Solids

COMING SOON

• More model making investigations
• The duals of the Platonic solids
• Exploring creative construction with pop ups and Mathomat 

• 2D design that develops 3D construction skills
• Tangrams with Mathomat
• Magic egg puzzle designs with Mathomat

• Proofs and definitions with Mathomat
• Why can only 3 regular polygons tessellate/why are there only 5 Platonic solids?
• Designing convex 2D and convex 3D objects with Mathomat
• Proving that a rotation, reflection, translation or glide reflection can be completely defined once we know what happens to any three points not lying on a straight line